By Ray King
The Pine Bluff City Council wrapped up 2023 with a three-item agenda Monday night which they completed in less than 25 minutes.
Those items included a resolution declaring certain houses, buildings, and or structures as nuisances and ordering their abatement and a resolution providing for the placement of costs of correcting nuisances on tax books as delinquent taxes and collected as such.
The final action was a resolution indicating the willingness of the city to use state highway department funds or a city project and was a correction to a previous resolution on the same subject that the council previously approved.
Mayor Shirley Washington said the correction was made by the Arkansas Department of Transportation and the city has been approved for a total of $300,000 which will be used to repave sections of a city street. The state will provide 90 percent of the total, or just over $371,000 while the city will be responsible for the remaining 10 percent, or about $29,000.
Council members Lanette Frazier and LaTisha Brunson completed their first year of service and Frazier was asked what she felt she had accomplished this year and what she wanted to accomplish in the future.
Brunson attended the meeting on Zoom as she was traveling.
The council will meet Jan. 2 and Washington said she hopes that meeting will take place in the new council chambers at the Kevin Collins Training Center, the former Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Library.
Meetings this year have taken place at the Pine Bluff Convention Center
